HIP-pening

I had the privilege to conduct HIP service yesterday.
It was good.

There is a man who went to the King. Let’s call him Martin. Martin owed the King million of dollars. How many of you know that if you owe someone million of dollars, you are most likely in very deep trouble.

Martin had no money to repay the King. So the King ordered that Martin and his family be sold away as slaves in order to repay the money. Martin got very scared and sad and he fell down on his knees and began to beg the King, “Oh please King! Be patient with me and I will pay back everything!”

So the King took pity on Martin and forgave him. He cancelled the debt and let Martin off. Wow! Wonderful right! How many of you don’t mind people telling you that you don’t need to pay back the money that you owe?

Anyway, so Martin went off happily and saw a friend of his, Joe. Joe had borrowed a few dollars from Martin last week and had yet to pay back. So Martin got very upset, went up to Joe and grabbed him by the collar and said, “Pay back what you owe me!”

Joe got very scared and sad and he fell down on his knees and began to beg Martin, “Oh please Martin! Be patient with me and I will pay back everything!” But Martin refused. Instead, he went off and got Joe caught and thrown into the prison until Joe could pay off the debt.

When the King found out what happened, he called Martin in. He said, “Martin, I cancelled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you also treat your friend just as I have treated you?”

Then the King threw Martin into the prison and ordered him to pay back the million of dollars that he owed the King.
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When we carry unforgiveness, it is like carrying a weight of rubbish with us.
Everywhere we go, we have a burden, we find it so difficult to love and to live life.
But the moment we let go and say we forgive, we feel the lightness and we can go about loving and embracing more easily. And we can love and experience love more freely.

So, it was good.
It is even better that i get to practise what i preached immediately after the service!
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Yea.. My experience is told within the parenthesis.
I find it hard to blog the whole story.

Nonetheless, when the matter happened, i was upset.
I felt accused and stepped on by another demanding person.
I felt i apologised for something that was not necessary - just to appease the other person.

So, the thought that went on the mind was, why why why?
And i kept rehearsing the incident in my mind that day.

It is human to ask for fairness, to put logic into every matter.
But the thing that always comes back to me at the end of every incident that i go through daily,
is what is God trying to bring across to me?

I guess He is trying to bring my message alive to me.
Especially the highlighted passage - the rubbish analogy that i used.

God is wonderful.
Every experience is precious.

I believe what i need to do, is to sift away the hurt the experiences bring;
and to retain the wisdom and lesson learned.

So we can love and experience love more freely.